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Ferran Soriano was told he had no case to answer in the Barcelona “spy-gate”
saga yesterday as a judge in Catalonia dismissed claims made against the
Manchester City chief executive.

Soriano, a vice-president of Barcelona between 2003 and 2008, had been
embroiled in accusations that he spied on former colleagues at the Spanish
club in a plot to quash leaks that could destabilise the regime of Joan
Laporta, the former president and a close ally.

It was alleged that Soriano — who was appointed as City’s chief executive in
August 2012 — may have overseen an order to monitor the internal e-mails